Series of six blank canvases (70x70cm) signed by the factory workers that made them in Daler Rowney, Free Industrial Zone, La Romana, the Dominican Republic.
Images: Photograph of 3 canvases from the series in the solo exhibition 'Our Celestial Sphere' at Pallas Projects, Dublin, 2019.
Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, Limerick Institute of Technology, and Fingal County Council. Images: Pallas Projects/Studios & Kerry Guinan.
(Original caption from artist’s website)
Series of six blank canvases (70x70cm) signed by the factory workers that made them in Daler Rowney, Free Industrial Zone, La Romana, the Do
And after contacting the Irish Museum of Modern Art and being referred to a curator (!), they provided me with the caption information that was used when displaying the work for the Staying With The Trouble exhibition in 2025 (thank you so much IMMA staff!!)
Artists is a series of blank, square canvases, each signed by a staff member in the manufacturing facility that produced the canvases in the La Romana Free Trade Zone, the Dominican Republic. The manufacturer, Daler Rowney, is a popular supplier of art materials in Ireland. The artist coordinated the project remotely by contacting the facility manager. The signatories volunteered to take part in the project upon invitation. They are Johan Rivera, Carlos Roa, Aneury Rondon, and Orlando Saldivar.
Anyways, I’d spent about the last 6 hours of my life trying to find out this information after some discussion on artist supply chains came up on the dashboard. Hope you enjoy the work as much as I do.
Hi everyone! I'm Liz and I'm doing the thing that I hate most i… Liz Bengtson needs your support for Support Liz's Journey Back To Boston Fo
i am moving back home and i have a lot of expenses to cover cause i got too sick to work full time for the last two years. i will be able to hop back into a union job when i get back but in the meantime i gotta build up those coffers again
saying this in a soft tone but i dislike this presentation of artemis 2 in the least political way possible as a wholesome and uncomplicated win for humanity as a whole like it's not american propagandism of the highest and most vulgar degree
"For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon. It reads: "We came in peace for all Mankind." As the United States was dropping 7 ½ megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock."
Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
MY completely original and not at all filing-the-serial-numbers-off mediterraninlandsteppe neolithironbronze ages eurasian societies mythical Amazons-inspired bullshit straight up infantry fighters & high priestess female characters.
can you guess what animal is at the center of their spiritual and cultural life it's not easy it's very subtle
formal inspiration bits:
fig. 1:
late bronze age scythian pants
later greek/roman pteruges (leather strips "skirt")
neolithic cucuteni-trypillia earthenware & statuettes-inspired body paint and chiton patterns
punic "sign of tanit" (body paint)
iron age weaving worn as krajka/kushak-style belt and edge of headdress
premodern (at least medieval, likely of earlier origins) kichka styled as horse ears instead of horns
ancient greek chiton & veil
celtic "torque" style bracelet
achaemenid empire bracelet
late antiquity byzantine gold bracelet
middle minoan II/III bronze age breast ornament/necklace
late geometric/early archaic era bronze horse statues (body paint and fibula)
late bronze age etruscan spiral bracelet
archaic era (circa 550BC) rhodian siren aryballos :)
fig. 2:
ancient greek "boeotian" shield gorgoneion-inspired apotropaic design
bronze age "tower" shield with later roman "scutum"-inspired decorations
left cuirass mostly inspired by the 3th century BC italiote Ksour Essef cuirass
right cuirass mostly inspired by the bronze age anatomical "Marmesse" cuirasses + archaic period "bell" greek cuirass (with Ksour-Essef cuirass inspired shoulder clasps & hints of later anatomical cuirasses design elements)
scythian pants, scythian shoes
late greek/roman pteruges
neolithic cucuteni-trypillia earthenware & statuettes-inspired body paint
hoplitic (ancient greek) greaves
iron age weaving as pattern again
hellenistic period Tanagra figurines (one) (two)
lore bits:
the veil is not a modesty thing in their culture (as depicted on fig. 1 the "modesty" "standards" are vastly different), it is almost exclusively used by the priestesses by whom it is used as insulation material to get real high off the smoke of sacred herbs (like one would put a towel over their head when leaning over a bowl of boiling water to clear out the sinuses. but with psychotropics instead) and through which it is said a priestess does her scrying and can see the future or the dead by holding the veil up against smoke, against the sky, against a landscape, etc.
the main animal of spiritual, cultual, cultural, and social/societal importance is the horse. spiritually and cultually, it is seen as a psychopomp: an animal who carries on its back the soul of the dead from this world to the other. it is seen as a comrade, able to carry the wounded out of battle like fellow soldiers can, and as a mother archetype, carrying its rider like a mother carries her child. it is as such a symbol of solidarity but also of strength, of vitality, and from observing the behavior of mares, of fierce protection yet of not tolerating bullshit. this makes, for them, the centaur both a revered neighbor (lol "neigh") (also centaurs exists in this. not the point) and an ideal: animal instinct and human reason, animal strength and power with human conscience/consciousness using and channeling that strength and power. as most members of this society ride horses, the "control of" (partnership with, rather) of an animal that big and powerful is like microdosing on controlling forces beyond one's grasp (the divine). socially and societally, the horse is at the center of their economic surviving system as it aids in travel, in agriculture, in warfare, in games (that serve cohesion of the community), in construction, in entertainment and spiritual life (string instruments using horse hair), etc.
the second main animal of their spiritual life, with lesser social/societal importance, is the snake. it is a chthonian animal associated with death (crawls on and burrows in the ground, realm of the death), but also with rebirth (molting), both very important to the community as many who were not born in it (like the main character of the story) (not pictured there) (oh yeah i haven't mentioned it. those are parts of the supporting cast. WINK) but rather came there, came after a death (social, spiritual, mental and, for some but very few, literal/physical).
the third animal of their spiritual life is the lizard, associated with rebirth through molting also, but more important due to its behavior of autotomy: self-amputation and discarding of the tail when caught by a predator in order to escape, and regrowing it later.
I’ve decide to try to do quilted banners without using any patterns! The stars are a bit wonky but i’m satisfied with the result. The dog are all hand sewn little pieces of felt!
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